- Cover of The Breakfast Club
The world of fashion is a fickle thing. There are a number of fashion movements that come and go in an instant. It’s the nature of the business to be hot one minute and gone the very next. The catalyst for these movements come from a variety of places. Most take place on the runways and trickle down into the department stores. Yet, many of them must have a bigger platform to get their fashion sense across to the masses. For that there is the Hollywood movie.
Hollywood has been a tremendous place for fashion over the years. Many people attribute the styles they saw in movies like the one shoulder sweater in Flashdance, or the lazy look Judd Nelson had in The Breakfast Club to those movies as a whole. While it’s true that these stylist work hard to craft a look that the character would look natural as, the truth is that these styles take years to get where they are in the main fashion arena.
A high profile designer put a certain style into a show. This is well received by the fashion world and copied by a whole gaggle of other designers. They put it into their line and then this begins to make it’s way around the different fashion circles. Once it becomes less fashionable, the rest of the world gets it and they begin to put it into the everyday attire.
Hollywood influences everything from there. These styles are put into the movies and are worshipped by kids and adults alike. Everyone sees something in a particular look of movie that makes them want to adapt that same type of look. The truth is that fashion starts on the runways in Paris, but it becomes the thing everyone is wearing by being in the movies that we love. Fashion is a progression. Hollywood is a very big part of that progression.
